Month: December 2006

I've been perusing my blog stats over the past few days, and the most common way that people have been finding my site via Google and other search engines is by searching for some combination of “barak obama” and “faith” or “religion”.

I don't often write letters to the editor. I've been reading Tricycle off and on for a long time. I had unsubscribed during my time in seminary, but I have re-upped, and got the first issue in the mail a few days ago. Somehow, I'm looking at those articles with very different eyes. Tricycle covers quite a broad range of Buddhist traditions in the US, and often engages in interesting and sometimes difficult conversations about the practice of Buddhism in the West.

sucks. Of course, everyone knows this. What's interesting to me, is that even if you don't actually expend much physical effort in carrying stuff from place to truck to place, it is still physically, mentally and emotionally draining. Anyways, my first move is done. I'm in Oakland, moved out of my room in Benton (one of the PSR dorms.) I handed in my keys, forwarded my mail, got all of the signatures necessary so I can actually get my Certificate in the mail sometime this summer. It will be interesting living in Oakland for about a month.

I was doing some searching for blog posts relating to women and technology, and I came across Basic Blogging for Women. It's actually run by someone I know of in the nonprofit technology field – Britt Bravo. It's a great place to start, if you're thinking about starting a blog.

I don't know how many of you know about Digg. Digg is one of those Web 2.0 collaborative bookmarking systems – with a big twist – people vote on whether a story (mostly news-y kinds of things) deserves to be seen. The more “diggs” a story gets the more attention it gets.

There used to be this thing when a site got “slashdotted” (or the “slashdot effect” – that was when it got on the front page of slashdot.org.) Well, now, there is the “digg effect”

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I’m a polymath: hardware & software geek, spiritual teacher & theologian, writer, and scientist (in no particular order.) I’m interested in just about everything. I’ve realized that one of the things I do a lot of is “observe and reflect”, and dig deeper into things that are happening in the world.

This will be provocative, sometimes even surprising. I welcome discussion on whatever I’m writing about.